Kingdom of Wogdgo

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Wagadugu (also Wogodogo , Wogdgo , French Ouagadougou ) is a kingdom of the West African people of the Mossi in today's Burkina Faso , which was independent until the French conquest and which still exists today, albeit without nominal power. The capital was the village of the same name, which was expanded under the French to become the capital of the Upper Volta colony .

Wagadugu was founded by Oubri around the 12th century and ruled as a hierarchical state by an emperor, the Mogho Naaba . According to legend, Oubri had 333 children, each with a principality belonging to Wagadugu. However, when the French arrived in the late 19th century, only four of them existed.

The Mogho Naaba is subordinate to five “governors”, each of whom is assigned a province, one in the role of administrator, another as chief over the eunuchs , the third as the leader of the infantry, the fourth as the leader of the cavalry and the fifth as the guardian of the royal tombs. These were each based in a village around Ouagadougou, for example the Goung-Naaba (chief of the cavalry) in Gounghin . There is also a ministerial council consisting of 15 members.

The inhabitants of the empire lived as farmers and ranchers and were largely able to keep their traditional religion against the spread of Islam .

The empire was conquered by French troops in a bloody battle in 1896 and annexed to the French colonial empire. Today the Mogho Naaba resides as the spiritual leader of the Mossi in his palace in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou , since 1982 Naaba Baongo II.